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1850-1880
GUSN-51026
A squat ovoid body with a short circular neck with a mottled gray ground decorated with cobalt blue Chinese devices, a water scene and a banding under a clay glaze. The neck is closed with stepped brass fittings with electrical socket and brass tone harp. It has a turned black-painted wood base. It has been rigged as an electric lamp.
electric lamps (lighting device forms)
stoneware (pottery)
underglazing
Chinese export
Stoneware
Underglazed
Chinese Export
JAR, GINGER
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
China; Korea
17.25 (H) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.647
Possibly China
Possibly Korean Peninsula (Asia) [peninsula]
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